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*defined as the “highest earning nonprofits”

This curated collection of online tools, tutorials and resources is designed to help nonprofits and ethnic and community news organizations navigate the often intimidating and ever-evolving new media landscape. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, you will find valuable information on the technologies and best practices you need to tell a community’s stories in compelling ways; engage new audiences; optimize your website; and measure online impact.

Includes:

• Video Training
• Social Media Training
• Monitoring & Metrics Training
• Blogging Training
• Audio Training
• SEO Training

We’d love to get some examples and recommendations on ways that nonprofits are using Tumblr successfully — can you point us to some of your favorites?

Values-driven organizations – nonprofits, social enterprises and socially responsible small businesses – face a special challenge: balancing social good and mission with revenue generation.

Ventureneer has put together a list of the 25 Best Social Media for Social Good Blogs, those blogs that “get” the challenge of mission and/or provide useful information about social media. We hope this resource will encourage and guide values-driven organizations as they expand their use of social media.

thechangelog:

Responsive Design Testing is a great tool by Matt Kersley to test responsive web designs. You can quickly test your designs in multiple screen widths.

You can even share a link with someone by adding your URL to the end of the testing page. For example: google.com.

Special thanks to Ryan Carson of Carsonified for sharing this on Twitter.

[Source on GitHub] [Website]

Today, in the buildup to its f8 conference, Facebook is rolling out another key new feature: a one-way follow model called Subscriptions. It’s sort of like Twitter, sort of like Google+, and
it massages one of the service’s biggest pain points for users who have a lot of friends (or who want to share their status updates broadly).

Here’s how it works. As you browse around the site, you’ll notice that some users have a button at the top of their profile that says ‘Subscribe’. Click it, and you’ll start seeing that user’s status updates in your News Feed, just as if you were their Facebook friend. But there’s a big difference: unlike normal Facebook friends, the people you subscribe to don’t have to approve your subscription request, and there’s no limit on how many people can subscribe to any given user.

Facebook says the feature will appeal to anyone looking to reach a broader audience, like journalists, artists, and political figures. To start sharing your own posts publicly, head to the new tab beneath your profile photo that says Subscriptions. Click it, and you’ll have the option to broadcast your public updates to anyone who has subscribed to you. Note that you’ll only syndicate updates that are marked Public; updates shared with Friend Lists won’t be seen by your subscribers.

Introducing Bitcasa: For those of us who keep hitting our Dropbox limit, take note of cloud-drive newcomer (and not yet publicly available) Bitcasa, which claims to allow “infinite storage”. Also, for those who were rattled by the dust-up earlier this year in regard to Dropbox encryption and security, Bitcasa claims “Bitcasa encrypts your data before it is sent to the cloud. It is actually impossible for Bitcasa to access any of your data for any reason.”

No idea on pricing yet! Pricing: “(free for now, $10/month after beta)”

Learn more about Bitcasa.

Infographic for 20 years of Linux…

We are very interested in exploring more about Stripe, a (currently) invite-only payment processing service that is built for easy integration and flat-rate fees (2.9% +$0.3 on all transactions, including Amex, with no monthly fees or setup fees).

Nat Friedman included a paragraph about Stripe in a recent blog entry:

Stripe is a payment system designed for programmers. They have a beautiful API that’s so simple you can integrate it into your site in less than ten minutes. If you’ve ever had to use Paypal Payments Pro, you will have a deep appreciation for stripe. They don’t require a merchant account and their JavaScript API allows you to transmit credit card information directly from the customer’s browser to stripe’s servers without redirecting the user to a stripe.com page. This reduces your PCI compliance burden without hobbling your payment workflow.

Check out their FAQ if you’re interested in learning more.

Visit Stripe.com.

by Jake Strawn (@himerus), from Drupalcon 2011
More info

This is a simple jQuery plugin to convert menus into a select element for mobile devices and low browser widths.

Usage:

The deck.core module provides all the basic functionality for creating and moving through a deck. It applies and removes classes to indicate the state of the deck and its slides, allowing CSS to take care of the visual representation of each state. It also provides methods for interacting with the deck, as well as basic key bindings for going to the next and previous slides. Separate extension modules provide more functionality using the API provided by core.

robcottingham:

So, this is kind of huge. But isn’t there some kind of trade regulation that kicks in when you concentrate so much awesomeness under one roof?

skitchheartlove:

Huge! Skitch is acquired by Evernote

A Great Match

We are super proud to announce that as of today, Skitch has joined the Evernote family. Evernote helps you remember everything. Skitch helps you draw attention to anything.

We’ll be working alongside the great Evernote crew to make Skitch and Evernote work seamlessly together to help you remember and draw attention to all your important stuff.

Semantics in HTML is always a hot topic. Some people strive for it at all times. Some people critisize a dogmatic adherence to it. Some people don’t know what the heck it is.

I’d describe semantics as it relates to HTML as tags, classes, IDs, and attributes describing but not specifying the content they enclose.

After writing this post on somone hacking QR codes, Hack A Day commenters came out in full force posting some really cool links about modifying QR codes to include a logo. I’ll fully admit I geeked out a little, but in the process I figured out some of the theory behind embedding logos in QR codes…

This is a very nice tutorial on how to write a hook for your Drupal site to specify which image Facebook should pull in when people share your page on Facebook. (Note: We provided a more universal instruction on how to manually insert this meta tag - and a few others - a few years ago).

Per Idealware’s share on Facebook, this is geared to business but is still very useful for us nonprofits! Tons of resources linked here.

So how do you get your Page started? And how do you get more people to Like your Page? What are the best ways to use Facebook and how can you measure your progress?

The questions go on and on, and I’m about to answer A LOT of them, with a little help from some friends.

jQuery HTML5 Uploader is a lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you to quickly add an upload system a-la-Gmail into your web app.

You only need to create a dropbox element (i.e. a div) and jQuery HTML5 Uploader will do the rest. Then you can drag & drop one or more files on the element and the files will be uploaded.

We’re soft launching our newly upgraded site and would love to get your feedback! In the next weeks we’re going to be going through to make sure we’ve squashed any bugs and then as part of the “official launch” we hope to:

• post a more thorough blog entry describing the upgrades and listing some of the new features
• add some of our more recent work to the portfolio
• upgrade our Tumblr theme to match (yeah!)

So please, if you have a moment and an inclination, please visit the site and send us any feedback you’ve got! We also appreciate shares on social media or directly with folks who may be interested.